THE IMMIGRATION FACTOR: IF WE DO NOTHING-ENVIRONMENTAL AMERICA IN 2050

By Frosty Wooldridge
October 8, 2012
NewsWithViews.com

What
will America look like environmentally when we add another 100 million
immigrants by 2050? What will it look like with a total human population
that grew from our present 315 million to 438 million? With this series
and the social media information you gained from parts 3 and 4, why
haven’t millions of readers written their letters and emails to
Charlie Rose at PBS and Neal Conan at NPR along with Matt Lauer, David
Gregory and Bob Schieffer? Why haven’t you (we) forced this single
gravest predicament into the presidential debates with your letters,
phone calls and emails? I mean, I gave you the email addresses, phone
numbers and snail mail addresses in parts 3 and 4.

Yet,
I don’t hear a whisper about immigration in the presidential debates.
I don’t hear a sound-byte about accelerating carbon footprint,
acidified oceans, air pollution over our cities, ecological footprint,
species extinction, water shortages, gas prices (or the reports that
gasoline in California last week hit $4.60 a gallon), resource shortages
and the ongoing lack of jobs.

Everyone
that either remains silent or guns for more immigration and population
growth—doesn’t see the underlying consequences because they
do not show themselves in our everyday living.

What
about the fact that our continued human encroachment on the land will
destroy over 2.4 billion acres of wilderness by 2050 with that added
100 million immigrants? (Source: www.allspecies.org) And, much more
with our total growth to 138 million added Americans? Did you know that
according to the U.S. Department of the Interior, we Americans cause
the extinction of 250 species in the lower 48 states every year? That’s
2,500 species every decade. That’s 10,000 species that will be
snuffed out of existence in the next 38 years.

How
does that speak to you spiritually, morally, ethically and just the
loss of so many of God’s creatures? As the only cognitive species
on this planet, do we possess the right to slaughter that many fellow
travelers on this planetary biosphere?

Are
we proud of that? Globally, species extinction runs at 80 to 100 creatures
per day from human encroachment on habitat as we add 80 million of ourselves
net gain annually. What might be the end result? Our carbon footprint
will create even greater acidification of our oceans that will cause
massive die-off of fisheries from our toxic oceans. That doesn’t
include the fact that humans rape the oceans with drift nets and over-fishing.
According to Julia Whitty, OneEarth, humans have been killing off 100
million sharks annually for the last 25 years. Can you imagine what
humans will do to the oceans with an added 3 billion people within 38
years as we grow from 7.1 billion to 10 billion by 2050? Folks, it’s
not going to be pretty.

“Upwards
of two hundred species…mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety...are
becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's
carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying
capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed
out of existence...thanks to technologies that most people, I'm afraid,
think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before
the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived
as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless
production of radioactive wastes.” Daniel Quinn

Can
you imagine the air over our cities with Los Angeles adding another
10 million immigrants? How about Chicago? How about Houston? Every breath
in those cities adds toxic carbon particles to every man, woman and
child in 2012. Imagine what it will be like in 2050 with another 100
million immigrants.

Do
you know what astounds me? Answer: nobody will mention a word about
this predicament. It’s like if we continue to ignore it, “it”
will go away. I’m here to tell you, it not only won’t go
away, it will become catastrophically worse with 138 million more people
added to our country. We won’t be able to cope, solve or deal
with it.

That
brings me to Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of The Collapse of Complex Societies:
Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The
Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will
therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation
of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient
societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present
and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse
and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a
new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse
kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes
of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan
collapses.

Let
me make this clear: only one resource keeps this game running—oil.
But it will be gone within 40 years. Just as gasoline hit $4.60 in California
last week, it will reach $20.00 per gallon by 2050. (Source: Chris Steiner,
$20 Per Gallon) Human overpopulation and usage drives that price upwards
and eventually will exhaust all oil on this planet.

"The
cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plentitude for a period
not much longer than a human lifetime....so I hazard to assert that
as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves move toward depletion,
we will be left with an enormous population...that the ecology of the
earth will not support. The journey back toward non-oil population homeostasis
will not be pretty. We will discover the hard way that population hyper
growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age. It was a condition,
not a problem with a solution. That is what happened and we are stuck
with it." James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency

And
even if we enjoyed unlimited oil, we don’t enjoy unlimited clean
water, clean air and vibrant, arable land to grow food. Essentially,
as we add 100 million immigrants, we paint ourselves into an inescapable
corner.

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Fellow
Americans, I have seen what’s coming in my world travels and I
need your help. I need you to return to parts 3 and 4 and start contacting
the media through the social media. Otherwise, as you can see in this
series, our civilization, aka, our children will reap the whirlwind
of consequences we bequeath to them through our apathy, our arrogance,
our misunderstanding of our situation and our choices to do nothing.

Listen
to Frosty Wooldridge on Wednesdays as he interviews
top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots"
at www.themicroeffect.com
at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS"; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND
THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER:
ANTARCTICA.” His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.”
He lives in Denver, Colorado.

And even if we enjoyed
unlimited oil, we don’t enjoy unlimited clean water, clean air and
vibrant, arable land to grow food. Essentially, as we add 100 million
immigrants, we paint ourselves into an inescapable corner.